Remus during the First Wizarding War, as a member of the original Order

After Hogwarts, Remus joined the Order of the Phoenix and fought in the First Wizarding War. However, Pettigrew betrayed James and Lily Potter to Lord Voldemort and Remus had lost all of his closest friends in various ways by the end of the First Wizarding War. The loss of his friends was said to be the most tramatic experience of his life, though he and Sirius Black later rekindled their friendship. By the early 1990s, Lupin was living in poverty, in a tumbledown, semi-derelict cottage in Yorkshire. Albus Dumbledore tracked Lupin down in the summer of 1993 and offered him a teaching post.

Remus and Tonks's dead bodies lying in the Great Hall during the one-hour armistice

Family tree

Etymology

Lupin is derived from the Latin word lupus, meaning "wolf". Lupin or lupine is also the name of a flower, and the latter is an English adjective meaning "wolflike". This alludes to the lycanthropy in the family.